Los Angeles, 1929: a glittering metropolis on the crest of an epic crash. A mysterious prophetess and her alluring daughter have relieved an oil tycoons nephew of his fortune. But the kid wont talk. To find the money, the old man calls on a trusted executive, Raymond Chandler, who in turn enlists the aid of his devoted secretary/mistress, Muriel Fischer, and their idealistic patrolman friend Tom James. Soon the nephew is revealed as a high-ranking member of a murderous cult of angel worshippers, and the trio plunges into an investigation that sends them careening across Southern California, from sinister sanitariums to roadside burger stands, decaying Bunker Hill mansions to sparkling cocktail parties, taxi dance halls to the morgue, all in search of the secretive Great Eleven. But when Muriel goes undercover to infiltrate the groups rural lair, she comes face to face with disturbing truths that threaten to spoil everything, not just for the cults members, but for herself as well.A work of fiction inspired by actual events and featuring the real-life cop who is a likely model for the mature Chandlers greatest creation, private eye Philip Marlowe, Kim Coopers The Kept Girl exposes a mystery so horrifying, it could only be true.